Who uses PSE?
PSE is licensed by programmable platform vendors for use by their customers who are FPGA, ASIC, or SoC designers. PSE can also be licensed by system-level EDA companies who would like to extend their offerings into the RTL domain. Why use PSE? Prior to PSE, emerging programmable platform vendors developed their own customized synthesis solution from scratch, which is costly, risky, and highly time-consuming. Alternatively, they licensed a standard synthesis solution – targeted to mainstream architectures – which then had to be customized to their specific offerings This latter path involves hefty licensing and customization fees. SoftJin’s PSE is the first offering in the market that provides a viable quality plus cost combination to these emerging vendors for their synthesis solution. Also, before PSE, system-level EDA tool vendors curtailed their output to RTL and relied on standard synthesis vendors to complete the rest of the design flow. While this RTL handoff enabled vendor neutr
